[cies]

> the smell is horrific

Okay. How do you feel about ciggies, cigars and pipe? That also smells horrendous? Or car exhaust fumes?

The thing here is: you can be against something because it will be "yet another annoying thing"... But that ignores the freedom aspect: if behavior X is less-than-or-equally annoying (unhealthy, addictive, etc.) compared to Y, and Y is legal, then that is a good argument that X should be legal too. If not we get into "unfair discrimination against behavior X" territory.

[username90]

Or you make Y illegal as well. Smoking is all but illegal today in Sweden, they banned smoking in restaurants 16 years ago and has since extended that ban to most public places.

[cies]

Great! Now at least legalize "smoking weed in your home" in Sweden and we're talking about the same.

Now what's so annoying about some person taking a line of coke in public? (do you get the drift?)

[username90]

Smoking weed in your home is already all but legal in Sweden. In the super unlikely case you get caught you pay a small fine and is free to go, the people I know who smoke weed aren't worried about the Police, more annoyed than anything. And regular tobacco smoking has mostly disappeared since it has became so inconvenient.

[cies]

You mentioned tobacco, which is recently saw laws made against it in Sweden.

I then also take the approach in what laws should then be remove in order not to unfairly "discriminate against certain behavior" (which is sadly so common nowadays).